No matter how Britain’s 160,000 or so Conservatives voted yesterday, it is unlikely to have much impact on India or even on Indo-British relations. This would have been so even if opinion polls ...

Lady Macbeth was one canny lady. She knew instinctively that any big job required a male identity in a man’s world — so she called upon spirits to ‘unsex’ her. Not that Sanna M...

Dangerous rhythm Sir — Many of us know the lyrics of contemporary Bollywood tracks verbatim. Their catchy beats are often difficult to ignore. However, if one pays close attention to the lyrics...

Undisputed queen Agatha Christie is in the news again. I intend to get the new biography on the ‘Queen of Crime’, titled Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman, which has just been publish...

As the conversation around elections in Jammu and Kashmir, which is under New Delhi’s direct rule for over four years, picks up momentum, a palpable anxiety has surfaced on a host of issues. On...

For those familiar with the political landscape of the capital, Ghulam Nabi Azad was synonymous with the Congress. Once a permanent shadow of Rajiv Gandhi at party functions, he, along with the likes ...

As I mulled over possible ideas for my first column in this newspaper, Ashok K. Kantha, the former Indian high commissioner to Sri Lanka, tagged me on a tweet, reminding me of my musical travels in no...

What’s common to Australia’s Carmichael mining project and Kerala’s Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport? There are many. First, both are being constructed by the A...

The prospect of Gautam Adani acquiring a controlling interest in NDTV has excited comment. NDTV in both its Hindi and English avatars takes an editorial position that is often at odds with the narrati...

As a member of the Karnataka State Cricket Association, I have free entry to all matches played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. However, I have never exercised that privilege in the case of the Indian Pre...